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ns and self importance more than the need of believers to yield to the leading of the holy spirit as their teacher paul addressed this very thing not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming out from us but our sufficiency is from god who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life 2cor 3 5 6 esv2011 in the early 70 s when we were part of the jesus movement before long we fell under the influence of a man with much personal charisma who taught us from the bible after all he knew the bible better than any of us s o naturally we submitted to his teaching we eventually became his slaves obeying his every word and desire eventually what paul said became true without the spirit abiding in our teachers and within us as we read the scriptures we became all men most miserable what started out with us being led of the spirit became controlling and demonic under the thumb of a man what jesus said of the jewish leaders became true in our lives as well the scribes and the pharisees sit on moses seat so do and observe whatever they tell you but not the works they do for they preach but do not practice they tie up heavy burdens hard to bear and lay them on people s shoulders but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger matt 23 2 4 esv2011 to the unbelieving jews he said and the father who sent me has himself borne witness about me his voice you have never heard his form you have never seen and you do not have his word abiding in you for you do not believe the one whom he has sent you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life and it is they that bear witness about me yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life john 5 37 40 esv2011 as i was sharing these thoughts with another believer regarding the work of the spirit they told me how john chapter 16 had come alive like never before so i decided to read it once again low and behold jesus words fit right in with what i have been sharing when the spirit of truth comes he will guide you into all the truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come he will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you all that the father has is mine therefore i said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you john 16 13 15 esv2011 dear saints don t put your trust in everyone who quotes the scriptures especially when they say one thing and do another remember these words of jesus but you are not to be called rabbi for you have one teacher and you are all brothers and call no man your father on earth for you have one father who is in heaven neither be called instructors for you have one instructor the christ the greatest among you shall be your servant whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted matt 23 8 12 esv2011 without jesus alive within us by his spirit even as we search the scriptures we will find no life this is not his will for he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly remember abundant life in the eye of god does not consist of the things of this world but rather the ones that are of his kingdom t austin sparks wrote there is a heavenly background to everything in the word of god and it is that heavenly background which constitutes revelation that you and i need to know if we are only seeing the things on the surface then we have but an earthly thing after all and that has been the trouble with god s people all along the great mass of christian people today are not brought up on the language of the holy ghost in the word of god they are brought up on what so and so says the things that are written in this book have back of them something which cannot be seen only as the holy spirit illumines it back of all things said there is a spiritual reality and meaning for which we need a spiritual faculty this book can be an absolutely closed book though you may read it through and through unless the spirit of god illumines but once the spirit of god begins to illumine this book lives it lives from end to end 1 1 https www austin sparks net english books spiritual_background_of_the_word_of_god_the html share this tweet print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 10 comments posted in abiding in christ christ our all false bible teachers how cults deceive obeying the leading of god reading the bible under inspiration spirit s guidence the evils of church hierarchy the law vs the spirit waiting for revelation the fellowship of his sufferings nov 18 by michael and he that takes not his cross and follows after me is not worthy of me he that finds his life shall lose it and he that loses his life for my sake shall find it matt 10 38 39 kj2000 have you ever wondered what it means to take up our own cross if we are to follow jesus wasn t him suffering and dying on the cross enough what does it mean to find our lives how about losing our carnal lives that we might find our spiritual lives as we follow jesus this is what our personal lives of the way of the cross is all about one sunday in a church meeting after suffering much rejection at the hands of the world and its christians i heard the lord say to me why do you keep seeking the living among the dead how often i have hoped to find the right church where the people are living out what we read in the book of acts and where the voice of the holy spirit in them is more important to obey than the intellectual admonition of the man behind the pulpit i read that we are all a kingdom of priests and the spirit gives each of us as members of christ s body something that must be shared for the whole body to manifest the fullness of christ we are called to be a loving family with jesus as our brother with us all manifesting his love for one another this shows the world who jesus really is my search has taught me the meaning of what jesus meant when he said that to be one of his disciples we must take up our own crosses and follow him so what happened to jesus as he lived out his life obeying the voice of his father in the leading of the holy spirit within him he told the disciples what would happen to him for obeying his father then he charged his disciples that they should tell no man that he was jesus the christ from that time forth began jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go unto jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised again the third day matt 16 20 21 kj2000 so as i pondered what it means to follow jesus i remembered what was said in the context of these words jesus asked them who do men say that i am the disciples gave him a variety of answers then he said who do you say that i am peter answered thou art the christ the son of the living god and jesus commended him but it was after he told them that he was about to go up to jerusalem and suffer and die that peter was correcting him saying be it far from you lord to this jesus said i rebuke you satan for you desire the things of men and not the things of god there is an old saying everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die and the disciples were of this mindset they still had not received the spirit of god which empowered them to be his witnesses of his kingdom early in my walk with the lord i came across the following verse where paul prayed that i may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death phil 3 10 kj2000 in my enthusiasm for christ i also prayed this as my own prayer little did i know what god was leading me into when he inspired that prayer we all want to know the resurrection power of god but what is the fellowship of his sufferings have you ever wondered why you never fit in this world and its people or even in your own earthly family i had a totally dysfunctional family when i was growing up my father was an alcoholic and my parents fought all the time so after i came to christ and was filled with his spirit in 1970 i found others who also who were one with him for the first time i knew the love of god among others who had come to christ in that same wonderful revival that became known as the jesus movement many of them also came from broken families we were not all perfect but the love of god that was being poured out made us one i couldn t stay away from these precious saints we were experiencing the family of god as time went on the enemy came in and paul s warning to the elders of the church at ephesus came to pass in our lives as well for i know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years i ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears acts 20 29 31 kj2000 the group that i was part of fell under the spell of one speaking smooth perverse things as he drew away disciples after himself of coarse what he taught was well seasoned with lots of scriptures why does god let this happen why do we end up experiencing so much rejection among our fellow christians while we just want to fit in and be part of a spiritual family could we be experiencing the fellowship of his sufferings at the close of his earthly ministry we read about christ s triumphant entry into jerusalem riding on a donkey where the people cried out hosanna to the son of david acknowledging that he was the messiah oh the fanfare and adulation the disciples were thinking at last he is being given recognition and credit where credit is due and coming to jerusalem to be its new king some were also thinking i wonder what will be my position in his new earthly government will i be setting on his throne at his right hand but jesus blew the whole thing because he went straight to the temple and started turning over the money changers tables turning the sacrificial doves and animals loose and making a mess out of the market place that had the blessing of the religious establishment he told them is it not written my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer but you have made it a den of thieves mark 11 17 kj2000 jesus was calling a spade a spade the power brokers in the that temple system were not going to allow that and the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy him for they feared him because all the people were astonished at his doctrine mark 11 18 kj2000 then gathered the chief priests and the pharisees a council and said what do we for this man does many miracles if we let him thus alone all men will believe on him and the romans shall come and take away both our place and nation john 11 47 48 kj2000 therefore also it is contained in the scripture behold i lay in zion a chief cornerstone elect precious and he that believes on him shall not be confounded unto you therefore who believe he is precious but unto them who are disobedient the stone which the builders rejected the same is made the head of the corner and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense even to them who stumble at the word being disobedient to which also they were appointed 1pet 2 6 8 kj2000 so what does it mean to fellowship with jesus in his sufferings the more we are conformed into the image of christ and value the things of the spirit and seek out the people that he does the more the enemy will attack us and the majority of these attacks will come from the religious establishment just as it was with him remember one of the accusations against jesus was that he mingled among sinners and publicans after this he went out and saw a tax collector named levi sitting at the tax booth and he said to him follow me and leaving everything he rose and followed him and levi made him a great feast in his house and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them and the pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples saying why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners and jesus answered them those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick i have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance luke 5 27 32 esv2011 this is where we will enter into the fellowship of his sufferings the more we value the things he does and seek out those who are lost the more we will be despised by the so called righteous ones remember the word that i said unto you the servant is not greater than his lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also but all these things will they do unto you for my name s sake because they know not him that sent me john 15 20 21 kj2000 the more i pondered the rejection we have suffered at that hands of religious people the more the prophesies about jesus became clear to me in a personal way david prophesied because for your sake i have borne reproach shame has covered my face i have become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother s children for the zeal of your house has eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me ps 69 7 9 kj2000 taking up my cross and following jesus has taken on a much deeper meaning as my wife and i have had to bear the burden of the lies about us and the rejection we have found among the religious establishment remember satan was a liar and murder from the very beginning and like jesus told peter you do not know what spirit you are of this can sometimes apply to those who persecute us without cause and they that had laid hold on jesus led him away to caiaphas the high priest where the scribes and the elders were assembled now the chief priests and elders and all the council sought false witness against jesus to put him to death but found none yea though many false witnesses came yet found they none at the last came two false witnesses and said this fellow said i am able to destroy the temple of god and to build it in three days matt 26 57 61 kj2000 the temple was their power base and to speak against the temple or the high priest was considered a death sentence yet jesus knew that that whole religious system was under the judgment of god and was about to end as the disciples marveled at the temple buildings in jerusalem jesus said see these buildings not one stone will be left upon another until it is all torn down by 70 ad the roman armies came in and destroyed their temple and killed all the priests most of my experiences in today s church system have taught me the meaning of taking up my cross and following jesus i now see the wisdom of jesus where i read but jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them 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